I think the notion that we have a very real and present danger in the nihilistic ideologies of radical Islam, I think most Americans share.

This means it's a very bittersweet victory for House speaker Dennis Hastert, who threw some of his own political capital behind this bill.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

I think you'll see Al Qaeda trying to influence this election.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America.

This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent.

The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too.

In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America - there’s the United States of America.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.

America, we have more work to do.

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

The audacity of hope!

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We knew that there were Khobar Towers, and we knew there was a World Trade Tower, and we knew about Osama bin Laden, and we knew about all these happenings around the world.